Andrew Pierce

Who is Andrew Pierce?

Andrew Pierce is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Pierce is a columnist and Consultant Editor for the Daily Mail and was previously Assistant Editor of The Daily Telegraph and assistant editor of the Times. He recently celebrated 30 years in newspapers.

In 2014 the Daily Mail had to pay damages to Kirsten Farage after Pierce in a column wrongly claimed she had been UKIP leader Nigel Farage's mistress while he was still married to his first wife.

Andrew presented a Sunday morning political radio show on commercial radio station LBC 97.3 from 2008 until he quit in 2012, That radio programme was in the latter years presented as a double-headed show with Kevin Maguire from the Daily Mirror. Pierce and Maguire continue their highly popular double act reviewing, previewing and dissecting the media and politics on the BBC, ITV and Sky News.

Andrew started presenting a on LBC Radio From 22nd March 2014

He was raised—and remains—a Roman Catholic.

Despite being gay, Pierce opposed the introduction of same-sex marriage and criticized Prime Minister David Cameron for treating it as a priority.